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It appears that we're quite close to having a usable, if not production-ready, pure GNU distribution. The vast majority of Debian packages have already been por
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
It appears that we're quite close to having a usable, if not production-ready, pure GNU distribution. The vast majority of Debian packages have already been ported to its GNU/Hurd.
On the other hand, they made the unorthodox decision to switch from dmd to sysvinit. Probably one of the very little systems to switch to SysV, rather than from it.
- 1_player 12y agoThe PDF talks about dmd. Do you mean they recently decided to switch to sysvinit? Got any link to the discussion?
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoI'm referring to Debian GNU/Hurd specifically, though it is the de facto main hub for Hurd development. Yes, here's the announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/05/msg00006.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/05/msg00... This is the blog of the person who did it, which features detailed development logs: https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/ https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/
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- buovjaga 12y agoI can't find any mention of dmd in those. Only "proof-of-concept upstream shell scripts" I started to think: if dmd was revived in 2013, how could Debian/Hurd have started the effort to switch away from it in the same year? This post talks of Debian/Hurd having "relied on its own init and rc system": http://osdir.com/ml/general/2014-01/msg61628.html http://osdir.com/ml/general/2014-01/msg61628.html
- justincormack 12y agoAre you sure? AFAIK Hurd is pretty much dead.
- yarrel 12y agos/dead/complete/ ;-)